Rumi Quotes
Like a sculptor, if necessary, carve a friend out of stone. Realize that your inner sight is blind and try to see a treasure in everyone.
Quotes to Explore
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Politics is the enemy of the imagination.
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Poverty is clearly one source of emotional suffering, but there are others, like loneliness.
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Life in cities is not a spring but a river, or rather, a water main. It progresses like a novel, artificially.
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Religions cannot change you. If you are angry, you will become an angry Muslim or Hindu. If you are righteous, you will become a righteous Christian or Jew.
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I mean, I was first offered Princess Astra.
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There are lots of films I wish stopped at installment number one. I like 'Back to the Future Part II' and 'Part III' enough, but I still like the ending of the first one better.
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The historian is a prophet looking backward.
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I think every teenager feels like a Martian in something, whether it's in their family, I think, or in their school. I think every teenager, every human being has a sense that they don't belong somewhere.
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Scotland's political identity was destroyed, and a huge Scottish emigration to North America followed the brutal Highland clearances. These included every layer of Scottish society, not just the remnants of the defeated clans.
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I like to have something to base a role on.
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Opinions are a private matter. The public has an interest only in judgments.
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Your heart can only take you so far - sometimes the physical body tells you otherwise.
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We never broke up. As long as I'm living and as long as Chuck D is living, Public Enemy is always going to be alive.
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I was a filmy kid. I was two when I faced the camera for the first time. My parents realised it pretty early, and I'm really thankful to them for their support and help.
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The power that is supported by force alone will have cause often to tremble.
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Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time.
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I almost got a psychology degree, I almost got a philosophy degree. I kept changing it so they couldn't make me graduate. I studied anthropology and eastern religion, epistomology, and astronomy... I took every interesting course I could find for nine years.
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I love cooking. It's one of my favorite things to do. To share my parents' recipes that I grew up with is just something very special to me.
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I'm not in the Shakespeare stakes. I have no ambition.
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I always fall in love with qualities of people I work with.
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I copied my brother. He was a natural dancer. Graceful. People always asked did we study ballet. We never did.
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Like a sculptor, if necessary, carve a friend out of stone. Realize that your inner sight is blind and try to see a treasure in everyone.
